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^I'm loving that too. So nice.
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Bear in mind that said dapper cyclist probably still lives with his Mama, who irons everything in sight. Also, most Italian footwear is still trapped in the mid-nineties. Prada/Moschino trainers = not cool, anywhere. Strangely popular in Milan though.
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Or Italian. That almost looks like a normal day at Fortezza da Basso. Florence has its own fair share of peacocks...
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Wow, how grotty? I mean, that's not great in the scheme of things. Might as well have bought a couple of BMW E30 M3s.
A couple of examples of stupid London 'growth' from elsewhere;
- Friend bought house in Notting Hill for £125,000 in 1991. Sold in 2010 for £1.4m.
- Friend got married, bought flat in Hornsey Rise in March 2012 for £220k. Separated a year later, flat sold in April 2013 for £307k. Every cloud and all that.
I think you'd have to be bordering on mentally-ill to pay today's prices for London flats.
- Friend bought house in Notting Hill for £125,000 in 1991. Sold in 2010 for £1.4m.
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No idea.
Not one hub, by the way, but two:
Two others on the go too. Cool bikes.
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Isn't that just that Cinelli Caleido tape?
No, you can see the tricolore. Busyman does a lot of Baums too.
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Still not a fan of the current 80s-computer-game Rotor graphics.
The nicest graphics on the whole bike. I'd have the frame repainted RITTE 8-bit stylee to match.
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A mate in LA has just finished building this.
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I quite like those paint jobs - though it does need black forks.
I think the opposite. A coded fork is what sets most nice modern builds apart from nasty 90s throwback shit.
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What guards & pump on the Pomp?
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Yes.
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Is dsc responsible for this movement?
I'm pretty sure 'sick fades' were being applied to bicycles long before DSC got going. He's definitely upped the taste level though, we're way past the OTT Italian era.
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That Baum is quite incredible. Looks like my size, too...
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Klein Rascal - bargain at $450 USD?
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Meanwhile, here in NYC we're back to the Noughties with the Lebanese Loop.
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Dat fork too. All-round rad bike.
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Nitto shims solve the 25.4-26mm problem, you know.
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Tough crowd. There have always been 'perfectly crafted' bikes, you just never got to see them because the people who built them didn't take a million pictures of them, court 'likes' or do 'collabos' for fashion's sake.
That Saffron frameset itself (which, let's face it, is far more important than the build) is insanely nice. Near-Bishop-level attention to detail, for me. I can't get bored of fabrication like that.I can, however, get super-bored of safari hunters posing with Cinelli Lasers.
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Got a japanese selvedge denim jacket a while back, starting to wear it now the polar vortex has fucked off.
It's stiff. Really quite stiff. Not wanting to wash it, or sleep in it, what can I do to (non-destructively) speed up the breaking-in process?
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I'm torn.
Part of me really likes Cannondales, and wants a CAAD 10 frameset.
The other part of me counts how many CAAD 10s I see on the average 'quick' ride (within 25 miles I usually see at least 10 or 15) and thinks I should find a Jamis Eclipse 853 frameset and give it the mother of all repaints.